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Send Revenue Data To Google Analytics In the Part 1 of Measuring Roi With Salesforce and Google Analytics, we provided a step by step guide on configuring Google Analytics and setting up a Web-to-lead form with Salesforce and getting all of that configured on your website. In this post, we’re going to set Salesforce up to send revenue data to Google Analytics
Configure remote site settings in Salesforce Navigate to Setup > Settings > Security > Remote Site Settings and create a new setting Create new setting as seen below: Create Apex Class in Salesforce We’re going to need to create an Apex class to handle our get requests to Google Analytics via the Measurement Protocol.

Brand Marketing VS Direct Marketing You can’t manage what you can’t measure.
- Peter Drucker
We live in an age when we can measure just about everything. The fact that many of us aren’t measuring our direct marketing efforts is detrimental to our businesses.
Brand marketing continues to be difficult to measure since brand marketing is more about communicating values to an audience. The ROI on that kind of advertising is measured far down the line whereas direct marketing is about getting conversions and selling right off the bat.

Configure your lead generation forms to store Google’s cookies If you’re collecting leads online and converting them over the phone through your CRM, you need to collect a cookie that Google Analytics sets on your website to identify that user. Once you store that unique id in your CRM, you can send a webhook to Google Analytics with that id via their Measurement Protocol whenever a deal has been completed.

Adblockers Adblocking is on the rise. And with it comes not only the removal of ads but the blocking of popular web traffic tracking tools like Google Analytics. Some reports suggest that more than 10% of all web traffic is now being blocked from services like Google Analytics and this can be a major issue for businesses that rely on accurate data to make good business decisions.
Specific Problems You might find that conversions that are being reported in Google Analytics don’t actually reflect the conversions that you are seeing in the backend of your website.

Introduction Sometimes your conversion funnel spans multiple domains or subdomains. If you need to track destination url goals on a subdomain for an existing universal analytics property, you can follow the steps below to distinguish between root domain visitors and subdomain visitors along with goals that might have the same url path. This is not to be confused with cross-domain tracking which requires different configuration settings.
Step 1 Add the universal analytics tracking code from your root domain to your subdomain and ensure that the cookie domain is set (by default it is set in universal analytics unless you are using GTM).

Introduction Google Analytics is an underutilized tool and there are a few basic things you can do to gain more insight into your conversions. Last year in March of 2016 Google made their new User Explorer available to the public. It’s a great tool but unfortunately, you can’t drill down into other dimensions with this tool yet. Also, you can’t combine this information with other dimensions or metrics like where the user came from.